Walter Raleigh

In August of 1587, a group of about 115 English settlers arrived on Roanoke Island, which is now called North Carolina. Later in the year, John White, a governor, would sail back to England to get food and other tools that they needed. However, once he arrived, a major war broke out between England and Spain. Therefore, Queen Elizabeth I called every sailor to help defeat the Spanish Armada. When John White came back from England in 1590, there was not a trace on where everyone went or what…

In the poems, “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” and “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love,” the man, also referred to as the shepherd, and the woman, referred to as the nymph, have completely different views of love. In “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love,” the Shepherd presents a view of love that is held together by normal human desires for material items such as beauty, music, fine clothes, dancing, and other nice things such as roses. The Shepherd believes that the key to attracting the…

The speakers of the poems, The Passionate Shepherd to His Love and The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd use imagery and figurative language showing the materialistic and realistic attitudes towards love and life and that gender-based hopes and expectations have not changed over time. When it comes to love and life we know that men and women have different attitudes. Men are usually idealistic and materialistic while the women are realistic and pragmatic. The Shepherd offers the Nymph many gifts…

On May 14, 1607, three ships carrying 110 people sailed to the land of Virginia, named after the virgin queen, Queen Elizabeth I of England. They traveled through Chesapeake Bay, and settled at the mouth of James River, naming their settlement “Jamestown”. Within a year, half of the colonists were dead. How? That is the question archeologists have pondered for years: How did so many Jamestown colonists die? Well, there are three crucial reasons why so many settlers perished. Those are: Lack of…

A long, long, long time ago, in the old year of 1587 A.D, a group of English men were viewing the vanishing colony of Roanoke. Their family, and friends were gone and so were the Indians. No one knew what happened, or what to do. Many years later, a small car was traveling south for a vacation when they saw a sign advertising the colony. In this car there was a family. Not a massive group of screaming kids and rude teenagers, but not a perfect, never-failing group of geniuses: it was a normal,…

It was a crisp morning in 1524, suddenly, there is a strange floating structure, far bigger than the biggest canoe. An Italian sea captain named Giovanni da Verrazzano had anchored briefly off Sandy Hook, but never returned. This lead to the discovery of the colony of what is now New Jersey. The Native Americans were confused as the strange men made their way to the mainland. New Jersey was no longer filled with only Natives. The Dutch, Swedes, and English claimed New Jersey. In 1609, an…

A journey to Virginia began on December 6, 1606, on three ships, the Godspeed, the Susan Constant, and the Discovery. Approximately 104 boys and men arrived in North America looking forward to starting a new settlement in 1607. Eventually, they chose Jamestown, Virginia, named it after the King James I. Jamestown was the first permanent settlement in North America. They chose it because of multiple reasons, one of them was because it met the criteria for a settlement. Jamestown had three of its…

Similar Composition, Different Content Within the “Passionate Shepherd to His Love” the narrator's love for a woman he fancies is idealized within it. Its structure of this poem is made as a basis for the both “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” and “The Bait.” Even though all of the authors are different, they all manage to mirror a similar structure. The organization of the poems are all very similar, all of them have four line stanzas and all three poems have a rhyming scheme of AABB. Also,…

In the year of fifteen-eighty-seven, a group of British settlers crossed the ocean in order to get to America and make it their new home. The leader of the colony, John White, returned to England to gather supplies. Whenever he returned, the colony had disappeared with nothing left except the word “croatoan” carved into a tree. What happened to the people of Roanoke Island? How could an entire colony of people just vanish? Experts are still trying to solve this unexplained mystery today. In the…

The Life and Death of Sir Walter Raleigh Sir Walter Raleigh was born around 1552 in a farmhouse near Burleigh Salterton Bay on the coast of Devonshire between Exmouth and Sidmouth. His father was Walter Raleigh and his mother was Catherine Champernown. Their last names were written in great diversity but the actual spelling of “Raleigh” was adopted by Sir Walter’s widow and is the most commonly accepted spelling. There is not much know of Sir Walter’s childhood, but in 1568 he was enrolled into…